A sailor in Hawaii and a soldier in the Phillippines were the first and last Medal of Honor recipients of World War II.

Taplett’s exploits in Korea came to overshadow his World War II service. As a neophyte gunnery ... later revealed to have been delivering planes to Midway Island, was still a week out of port ...

The attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii led to the United States declaring war and officially entering into World War II ... naval fleet. Airfields and bases across the island of Oahu were targeted ...

Chinese strikes on airfields will stymie U.S. military aircraft in the Indo-Pacific region if there is a conflict, a new ...

Kev South, leader of the Channel Islands WW2 Remembrance Campaign, said the majority of Alderney residents had just 24 hours to evacuate in June 1940, following the island's occupation by Germany ...

The Japanese decided to seize Midway island in order to force the US fleet to come out and do battle, so that it could then be decisively defeated. A base on Midway would provide an "unsinkable ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be left over from World War II on a ...